Author: The Carolinian

BY JENNIFER PELTZ AND KAREN MATTHEWS NEW YORK (AP) - From ground zero to small towns, Americans looked back Monday on 9/11 with moments of silence, tearful words and appeals to teach younger generations about the terror attacks that struck the nation exactly 22 years before. "For those of us who lost people on that day, that day is still happening. Everybody else moves on. And you find a way to

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DETROIT (AP) - Davion Williams wants to go to college. A counselor at his Detroit charter school last year helped him visualize that goal, but he knows he'll need more help to navigate the application process. So he was discouraged to learn the high school where he just began his sophomore year had laid off its college transition adviser - a staff member who provided extra help coordinating financial aid

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(AP) Two nonprofits have sued a white nationalist hate group in North Dakota, alleging that it committed racial intimidation by defacing businesses and public property around the city of Fargo with the group's logo and other graffiti. The lawsuit filed against Patriot Front in federal court on Friday alleges that the group, two of the group's leaders and 10 others violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which the complaint

(AP) Donald's Trump's Truth Social got a lifeline this week after a blank-check company that could infuse the social media platform with cash agreed to extend a critical deadline for a year. Digital World Acquisition Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, had a Friday deadline to complete its acquisition of, or merger with, Truth Social parent Trump Media & Technology Group. Digital World shareholders, who have agreed to extend

By Chris Frazier, Campus Echo A COVID outbreak has arrived at North Carolina Central University’s campus. Chidley North Residence Hall staff informed its residents via GroupMe that COVID is spreading throughout campus. They also state that students are welcome to return home for isolation but are not “required to.” Multiple sources from Residential Life to the Student Health center have confirmed that a dorm for students who test positive is

NC NEWSLINE - A new Stateline analysis shows that U.S. residents under 40 were relatively unscathed by COVID-19 in the pandemic but fell victim to another killer: accidental drug overdose deaths. Death rates in the age group were up by nearly a third in 2021 over 2018, and last year were still 21% higher. COVID-19 was a small part of the increase, causing about 23,000 deaths total between 2018 and

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Federal judges said Tuesday that they will draft new congressional lines for Alabama after lawmakers refused to create a second district where Black voters at least came close to comprising a majority, as suggested by the court. In blocking the newly drawn congressional map, the three-judge panel wrote that they are "deeply troubled" that Alabama lawmakers flouted their instruction to create a second majority-Black district or

GOODHUE, Minn. (AP) - As Goodhue Police Chief Josh Smith struggled this summer to fill vacancies in his small department, he warned the town's City Council that unless pay and benefits improved, finding new officers would never happen. When nothing changed, Smith quit. So did his few remaining officers, leading the Minnesota town of 1,300 residents to shutter its police force in late August. America is in the midst of